cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5071312

A police officer has been jailed for 26 years for 20 offences including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on a child.

Stephen Hardy, 46, a detective constable with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), used his teenage victim as a “puppet or sex object”, Judge Robert Trevor-Jones said during his sentencing on Wednesday.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    There can be no good cops if they turn a blind eye to bad cops.

    I married a cop, and I know what sort of BS happens in that scheme. If you give your least educated, untrained, and morally corrupt significant power, then things like this will continue to happen.